Isn't giving people who are unqualified positions of power the textbook definition of corruption?
Uh, no? Giving people positions of power in exchange for favours, or due to pre-existing relationships (e.g. nepotism) are textbook definitions of corruption. Their qualification or lack their of is irrelevant to whether the appointment is corrupt or not.
Based on what? Based on an employee leaving? Or based on taking legal action against someone who (may have actually) destroyed your business?
Because deleting a couple of log files shut them down, and they'd fired their sysadmin while apparently not having anyone with the capacity to diagnose and fix such a problem.
You'd probably cut your hands up pretty bad if you succeeded. I'd lie on my back and try and kick the windows out. Your legs have far more power than your arms, and you're generally wearing shoes.
The article names it as Pa Online.
He campaigned on a platform of isolationism. Why would he care if two countries on the other side of the world are hacking each other?
All I know about this particular incident is from the link the parent provided, but that doesn't seem to be the case - nothing indicates he had a weapon, or acted physically aggressive. The description most often used in the article is "tirade".
The man can be heard in the video shouting a wide range of racist insults, and at one point, he even raises his fist in a salute and shouts: "White power!" At another moment in the video, the man pulls out his phone and stands directly in front of Duhra.
It really does seem like he was charged with assault for a "racist tirade", which isn't entirely unbelievable, given it happened in Canada.
You are free to be as racist as you want, and to shout it to the world. One person did, and while hate charges were considered, they did not apply [ctvnews.ca]. He was just charged with simple assault.
Seriously? That's even worse. He was charged with "assault" - a word which, everywhere else in the world, implies physical violence - for *saying* something. That's the stupidest thing I've heard in...well, in the last 45 minutes, but most of those things were said by moronic teenagers on the internet, not the legislated code of laws of a purportedly civilized country.
Honestly, even if Trump wasn't elected, this is still a very good idea.
It is, and I suspect they were probably planning to do this anyway. The anti-Trump spin is just a way to get liberals to throw money at them during their fundraiser.
Bleaching intensity decreased along a southerly gradient. While most reefs exhibited some degree of bleaching, this bleaching varied in intensity (from less than 10% to over 90% community bleaching) and was patchy throughout most of the management area.
Did that bleaching gradient correlate with a similar temperature gradient? Sea temperatures have risen less than a degree centigrade since the 1800s; if coral reefs are *that* sensitive to temperature changes, they're probably screwed either way - humanity might be speeding it up, but the world's still on a warming trend absent human impact too. It's sad, but organisms that cannot adapt to changing environments die.
That's cool - I have no problem with conceding that Republicans do it too. It's the notion that they do it exclusively which is laughable.
The problem with this, is that it's actually not in any state's benefit to do so. If you're a winner-takes-all state, then the stakes are high, and the candidates need to pay attention to you. If you're a proportional state, then campaigning there is only going to net you a handful of votes - there'll be a large core that stays for each party, with a relatively small number of votes attached to the swing voters. There's no real incentive for the candidates to pay any attention to you whatsoever.
In order for that to work, it'd have to be federally mandated and enforced, which would be problematic in itself.
It is the exact same thing they do with gerrymandering. They go out of their way to draw the map such that there is as few democratic districts as possible, and the democrats there win elections by very high margins, while there is as many republican districts as possible.
Right, it's always "Republicans" gerrymandering, and the poor, unblemished Democrats who are victims of it.
It's because you don't really understand what people mean by "eite".
Trump isn't one of the elite. Sure, he's richer by orders of magnitude than most of the rest of us, but that just makes him "new rich" (Trump inherited his money, but his father made it - it hasn't been in the family that long). He didn't go to Ivy League college; he hasn't spent years politicking to gain power; he hasn't "paid his dues" climbing either of the two major party ladders; he's not a lawyer, nor a military officer; he's never previously held a political post.
You can tell he's not one of the elite by how they reacted to him - in both Democratic and Republican circles. He's not an everyman by any stretch of the imagination, but he's not a member of "the elite" either.
His general disdain for constitutional rights. People think it's no big deal now because they aren't the target of his disgust, but wait until the day you disagree with him.
You say that like it's a distinguishing feature. You know what would have really made Trump completely unproblematic as a president? Maintaining the original constitutional limits of power, instead of growing the power of the federal government for centuries. The left has been pushing for more power in Washington since forever, because they needed it to "fix" the world. Well, now someone else is sitting in front of those levers you built, promising to "fix" the world.
Do you understand why Libertarians support narrow limits to governmental power now?
My interpretation of this would be a criticism of the state's immigration/refugee policy. If "21" is his district's number, "Daesh 21" sounds like he thinks his district is turning into an outpost of Islamic State.
But, you know, far be it from the state to persecute people for disagreeing with them by abusing stupid laws.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
